Salomon II of Ethiopia

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Salomon II (Ge'ez ሣሎሞን) was nəgusä nägäst (13 April 1777 – 20 July 1779) of Ethiopia. He was the son of Abeto Adigo. He may be identical with the Emperor Solomon whom the traveler Henry Salt lists as one of the Emperors still alive at the time of his visit in 1809/1810.[1]

He was made Emperor by Ras Gusho and Wand Bewossen after they deposed Tekle Haymanot II. Richard Pankhurst credits him with the construction of Qeddus Fasilides ("St. Basilides," literally "Holy Basilides") church in Gondar.[2] According to the chronicler Alaqa Gabru, Salomon was blinded before he was deposed.[3]

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  1. ^ Salt, Henry [1814] (1958). A Voyage to Abyssinia and Travels into the Interior of that Country. London: Frank Cass. 
  2. ^ Pankhurst, Richard K. P. (1982). History of Ethiopian Towns. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag. 
  3. ^ H. Weld Blundell, The Royal chronicle of Abyssinia, 1769-1840 (Cambridge: University Press, 1922), p. 231
Preceded by
Tekle Haymanot II		 Emperor of Ethiopia Succeeded by
Tekle Giyorgis
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